Last Night of Make Believe

onMarch 3, 2014

By Kelly DuMar

My cousin Debbie had cystic fibrosis and, as was typical of the 1960′s treatments, she slept most nights with an oxygen tent over her bed. My two sisters and I longed for sleepovers with her which were rarely allowed. Every moment we had with Debbie was full of imagination, magic and bliss. When Miranda opened her call for friendship stories, I wrote Last Night of Make Believe and recorded it as a video poem which you can watch here:

I’m Miranda Beverly-Whittemore. FriendStories grew out of my novel Bittersweet, and the girlhood friendship central to that story. Girlhood friendships can be passionate, secretive, playful, brutal, and more. They are how we discover who we want to be.